2010 Bordeaux - Chateaux Climens, Barsac
2010 Chateau Climens being a Barsac, harvested a little bit earlier than in Sauternes. But as yet at Climens there's no sample of the finished product, its sitting in 23 lots, so we tasted them all! You have to do the assenblange in your head at this stage.
We started with some surprisingly sweet lots, and Chateau owner Berenice Lurton told me that at this stage she had to tell the pickers to pick wider adding more of the less botrytised fruit to bring down the sweetness, thus making this a fruit forward and fresh style vintage.
We moved on to some lots of lovely big opulent Sauternes, and after that to some very rich stuff . Finally we tasted the lots from the magic weekend towards the end of the harvest which accounted for 30% of the wine, and has this wonderful concentration and great depth of flavour.
We reserve judgement on the Climens for a month or so until we can taste a sample in the bottle, but what I can say is that we've got one hell of a vintage on our hands here at Climens - where the style of the vintage is going to really match the style of Climens.
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